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Nuclear Space Screw Tackles NEOs

Although space scientists are confident that they have mapped the majority of "near Earth objects" that could conceiveably collide with us, and found that we're safe for ...

Bye bye River Dolphin?

I don’t mean to be the harbinger of bad news – but it happens this week we’ve had another piece of important but incredibly depressing news from the aquatic world.It lo...

Can your kids read your mind?

As a new dad, Dr Chris may feel like his baby can read his mind. And now researchers in Italy have shown that he may actually be right. One of the unique c...

Life under a brown cloud - but it does have a silver lining.

Scientists have discovered that the global warming gas CO2 has an accomplice - clouds of soot in the atmosphere known as brown clouds. These clouds, which are over three kilometres...

Satnav receives environmental thumbs up

What's best for the environment, a well thumbed map and some common sense, or a satnav? To find out, Tiawanese researchers Wen-Chen Lee and Bar-Wen Cheng from the National Yunlin U...

French Bike their way to Cleaner Air

Paris is one of Europe's most congested cities, but now officials may have a new weapon to combat the problem - free bikes. The city have set up an initiative called "Velib&qu...

Key gene in lung cancer cocktail

Lung cancer has a very poor survival rate, which is often due to the fact that the disease isn’t diagnosed until it has spread around the body, making treatment difficult. Now a te...

A rash of new anti-HIV drugs

A cluster of new anti-AIDS drugs are expected to be approved for general use later this year, giving hope to patients who have developed drug-resistant forms of the virus. This is ...

Astronauts to test the healing power of shrimps

American astronauts intend to test out a chemical found in the shells of shrimps that may help with healing in case of an accident on a long duration space mission.Unfo...

Super paper - tough as steel

Scientists at Northwest University in Illinois have created a super-paper, made of carbon that is tougher than steel, but still more flexible than ordinary carbon fibre. And even b...